Conclusion

The goal of the Financial Services Industry Lens for the Well-Architected Framework is to provide architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective regulated financial services workloads on AWS. In operational excellence, we outline best practices around how people, process, and operating models need to be aligned so that workloads running on AWS can support critical financial services business services. Architectures for financial services workloads need to incorporate security and evidence-based compliance design patterns. Financial services customers also need to continuously monitor, measure, and test failure and recovery in the cloud to achieve their business resiliency and performance objectives. These objectives can be met with significant cost savings by right-sizing and establishing governance models around consumption and monitoring of AWS resources.

This framework can improve security, resiliency, and operational efficiency for financial services customers migrating and building apps on AWS, and can also assist in meeting regulatory and compliance obligations.